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• January 16th - Trotsky removed from Soviet War Council by Stalin
• March 13th - Daylight saving Summer time , in the UK, made permanent by parliament.
• April 4th - A tornado went through 5 states and in particular Murphysboro, Illinois, it killed 800 people and injured 3000
• April 30th - Art Deco style launched by Paris Exposition des Art Décoratifs.
• May 25th - John Scopes brought to trial in Tennessee, USA, for teaching about evolution.
• June 29th - Colour bar made legal in South Africa with work ban for the blacks.
• June 18th - Hitler's personal testament, Mein Kamp ('My Struggle') published.
• October 24th - Thomas Bell, Ernest Cant and Willie Gallacher were charged at Bow Street under the Incitement to Mutiny act of 1797, as leading communists. A few hundred people collected outside and sang "The Red Flag".
• PG Wodehouse publishes his second novel about Bertie Wooster - Carry on Jeeves
• Many people migrated to Canada, New Zealand, Australia or South Africa and Rhodesia, in the UK there was bad housing education, bad wages and little health care.
• Roman mosaic uncovered at Colchester
• Roman ruins at Jemila, Algeria described as an 'African "Pompei"'
• Mr LSB Leakey's British Musem Expedition in Tanganyika which had set out to obtain bones of a Gigantosaurus
• So many cars on the road in the UK that there were suggestions for a three tier system for cities - pedestrians above, cars at ground level and railways below as the dazzle of car headlights was a continuing problem
• John Logie Baird demonstrates television?
• Malcolm Campbell breaks the world land speed record.

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• Frontispiece:- Photo - A Type Of African Big Game Of Which The Duke Of York Lately Went In Search; A Bull Elephant In His Native Wilds Photographed At Close Range
• Our Notebook
• From The World's Scrapbook;Items Of Remarkable Interest Inc. The Largest Octopus Seen In Yorkshire/Believed To Be The First Boa Constrictors Born In England/Tragic Flood Disaster In Wales-A Landslide Near Bargoed (6 Photos)
  The "All-Blacks" Crown Their Victorious Career; New Zealand Beats "Home" In A Great "Rugger" Match (4 Photos)
  Cuan Bilang - "He Himself Hath Said It" - Twenty Years In Borneo (3 Photos)
  At Home And Abroad; Pictorial Records Of Recent Events (8 Photos)
  The World Of Science; The Vagaries Of Tusks (4 Photos)
  Cosmic Effects Of Rain; "Brakes" On The Earth' Rotation (Illustrated)
  The Birthplace Of Septimius Severus - Great Discoveries At Leptis Magna, An Imperial Roman City Of North Africa (2 Photos)
  Lost In The Sands Of Time; Leptis Magna-Ground And Air Views (2 Photos)
  Equisite Roman Mosaics And Frescoes, And Titanic Architecture; Treasures Of Leptis And Tripoli (12 Photos)
  Books Of The Day
  What The Duke Of York Faced; No Respecter Of Persons (Full Page Photo Of Rhinoceros)
  "The Solution ...... Lies In Force"; Il Duce Champions Fascismo (Photo)
  Ateel-Built Dwellings To Solve The Housing Problem; New Experiments To Be Tested In 25 Localities (Illustrated)
  Excessive "Water-Cooling" For Motorists; Roads Become Rivers In The Thames Valley And Kent, Maidenhead, Cookham, Staines And Wittersham (6 Photos)
  The Great Thames Floods From The Air; A Bungalow Colony (Full Page Photo)
  Life In Flooded England; Common Tasks In Strange Conditions (8 Photos)
  Gale And Flood; A Race-Course Cleared, Rafts And Rescues (5 Photos)
  The World Of The Theatre; William Archer; A Tribute - Plays Of 1924 (4 Photos)
  Personalities Of The Week; People In The Public Eye (14 Photos)
  The World Of Women (Illustrated)
  World Of Music
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